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This is a zone map drawn in color, with the Red Sea brightly visible in red. Like many other medieval maps, it is drawn as a circle surrounded by…
This portolan chart of the Mediterranean, drawn in 1508 by Andrea Benincacsa, is illustrated on a complete piece of parchment. Benincasa, the son of…
This 15th-century map combines a portolan chart and a world map. Anonymous and not precisely dated, the map is separated into two distinct spaces,…
A beautiful example of a portolan chart atlas from the 14th century by Pietro Vesconte highlights the importance of coastal cities in the exploration…
This striking specimen, commissioned for Charles V of France (r. 1364-1380) and probably made by Majorcan Cresques Abraham, is a unique hybrid of…
This map can be understood as a detail of a T-O map of the world. Europe is the fourth part of the world when Asia occupies half the circle and the…